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Chapter 1: Habitat Restoration: An Introduction -- Chapter 2: A Reasoned Process for Restorations -- Chapter 3: Restoring Areas of Concern -- Chapter 4: The St. Louis River Area of Concern -- Chapter 5: The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Wisconsin's Areas of Concern -- Chapter 6: The "Most Polluted River": The Grand Calumet -- Chapter 7: Restoration Sites in Michigan's Lower Peninsula:Saginaw and Muskegon AOCs -- Chapter 8: Ohio's Areas of Concern and Citizen Involvement -- Chapter 9: Some Other Important Areas of Concern and Their Analyses -- Chapter 10: Some New England Rivers and Their Advocacy Organizations -- Chapter 11: Conclusion: Some Lessons From Local Restorations. .

This book explores the leadership of state and federal environmental agencies and local environmental groups in restoring the degraded rivers that flow into North Americas Great Lakes and other sites in the northeastern industrial corridor of the US. Robinson examines twenty of the forty-eight sites included in the Areas of Concern Program of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between Canada and the US. These twenty include heavily urbanized locales such as those along the River Rouge and Detroit River, but also more pristine locales such as the St. Louis River that flows through Duluth. Additionally, Robinson examines challenging river restorations within the northeastern industrial corridor which are led by effective local environmental advocacy organizations: the Penobscot Nation of Indigenous People, the Mystic River Watershed Association, and the Housatonic River Valley Association. All of these river restorations are led and managed by the environmental experts of (i) state and federal agencies, (ii) academia, and (iii) environmental NGOs. Local restorations of industrially degraded water bodies now compose a significant segment of the environmental movement and, ultimately, Robinson demonstrates that local environmental advocacy organizations can help marshal state and local funding for those efforts. Richard M. Robinson is Professor of Business at the State University of New York at Fredonia (SUNY Fredonia), USA. He is the author of Environmental Organizations and Reasoned Discourse (2021), Business Ethics: Kant, Virtue, and the Nexus of Duty (2021), and The Imperfect Duties of Management (2018).

Part I: The Role of Business Norms and Their Philosophical Foundation -- Chapter. 1. Normative Ethics and Business Practice -- Chapter 2. An Applicable Western Ethical View? -- Chapter 3. The Moral Construction Process and Duties -- Chapter 4. Moral Virtues and Ethical Decisions -- Chapter 5. Business Codes of Ethics and Their Abandonment -- Part II: The Nexus of Duty and Managing Moral Disengagement -- Chapter 6. The Management Nexus of Imperfect Duties: Relations of Virtue, Reasoned Discourse and Due Diligence -- Chapter 7. Relations of Virtue, Pursuit of the Moral Community, and the Ends of Business -- Chapter 8. Reasoned Managerial Discourse -- Chapter 9. Due Diligence and the Profit Motive -- Part III: Some Fundamental Problems in Management Ethics -- Chapter 10. Fairness in Negotiation and Stakeholder Relations -- Chapter 11. The Philosophy of Action and Authority in Managerial and Entrepreneurial Ethics -- Chapter 12. Duty, Boycotts and the Pricing of Ethics -- Part IV: Some Current Moral Environmental Issues for Business -- Chapter 13. Recognizing Environmental Duties -- Chapter 14. The Community and the Environmental Ethic -- Chapter 15. Some Current Environmental Problems for Business.

This book uses Kant's idea of imperfect duty to extend the theory of the firm. Unlike perfect duty which is contractual or otherwise legally binding, imperfect duty consists of those commitments of choice that pursue some moral value, but that have practical limits to their pursuit. The author presents a broad view of the imperfect duties of management, defined as a nexus of all commitments to do good involving relations internal and external to the firm. This nexus consists of three overlapping categories of (i) building a virtuous managerial community, (ii) pursuing reasoned managerial discourse, and (iii) diligent and reasoned pursuit of the body of routine managerial duties such as capital budgeting and internal controls. Specific applications of the nexus theory for stakeholder relations via fair negotiation, and for analysis of the effects on the managerial team of perquisite consumption are presented. This book has major implications for research in business ethics and allows critical insights into managerial decision making.

Large surface plasmon polariton assisted enhancement of the magneto-optical activity has been observed in the past, through spectral measurements of the polar Kerr rotation in Co hexagonal antidot arrays. Here, we report a strong thickness dependence, which is unexpected given that the Kerr effect is considered a surface sensitive phenomena. The maximum Kerr rotation was found to be -0.66 degrees for a 100 nm thick sample. This thickness is far above the typical optical penetration depth of a continuous Co film, demonstrating that in the presence of plasmons the critical lengthscales are dramatically altered, and in this case extended. We therefore establish that the plasmon enhanced Kerr effect does not only depend on the in-plane structuring of the sample, but also on the out-of-plane geometrical parameters, which is an important consideration in magnetoplasmonic device design. ; The authors acknowledge support from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation project "Harnessing light and spins through plasmons at the nanoscale" (2015.0060), the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education. This work is part of a project which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 737093. E. Th. P acknowledges the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through the collaborative research center SFB TRR 173: SPIN+X Project B07 and the Carl Zeiss Foundation. A.G.-M. acknowledges funding from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through grant MAT2014-58860-P, and from the Comunidad de Madrid through Contract No. S2013/MIT-2740.